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Matt Talbot
The Venerable Matt Talbot, OFS (2 May 1856 – 7 June 1925) was an Irish ascetic revered by many Catholics for his piety, charity and mortification of the flesh.
Talbot was an unskilled labourer. Though he lived alone for most of his life, Talbot did live with his mother for a time.〔(1911 Census of Dublin )〕 His life would have gone unnoticed were it not for the cords and chains discovered on his body when he died suddenly on a Dublin street in 1925.
Though he has not been formally recognized as a saint, Talbot may be considered a patron of men and women struggling with alcoholism.〔(Foley OFM, Leonard, "Venerable Matt Talbot", ''Saint of the Day, Lives, Lessons, and Feast'', (revised by Pat McCloskey OFM), Franciscan Media, ISBN 978-0-86716-887-7 )〕 He is commemorated on 19 June.〔(LaPointe, Fr. Larry, "Matt Talbot", Connecticut College )〕
==Early life – alcoholism==
Talbot was born on 2 May 1856 at 13 Aldborough Court, Dublin, Ireland,〔("Matt Talbot", Diocese of Dublin )〕 the second eldest of twelve children of Charles and Elizabeth Talbot, a poor family in the North Strand area. He was baptised in St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral on 5 May.〔("Venerable Matt Talbot, 1856 - 1925", St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin )〕 His father and all but the oldest of his brothers were heavy drinkers. Matt left school at the age of twelve and went to work in a wine merchant's store. He very soon began "sampling their wares", and was considered a hopeless alcoholic by age thirteen.〔("Venerable Matt Talbot (Patron of Struggling and Recovering Addicts and Alcoholics)", Archdiocese of Atlanta )〕 He then went to the Port & Docks Board where he worked in the whiskey stores. He frequented pubs in the city with his brothers and friends, spending most or all of his wages and running up debts. When his wages were spent, he borrowed and scrounged for money. He pawned his clothes and boots to get money for alcohol. On one occasion, he stole a fiddle from a street entertainer and sold it to buy drink.〔
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